The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has started the approvals process for WiMAX to be officially recognised as a 2.6GHz technology, though Intel's bid for Swedish airwaves provides more substantial evidence of deployment plans.
WiMAX - a technology which cleverly calls itself 4G despite only offering 3G …

@ WIMAX = 4G????

Lee:

4G is a very broad term for pretty much all next gen wireless technologies. Most traditional network providers are using the buzzword LTE (Long Term Evolution) as 3G was more of a rip and refit. LTE will be a gradual increase using more flexible time slot's and lighter protocol stacks (radio end) all coupled with IP core, transmission & signalling. I think most providers are either all IP for these planes or half way there. But if there not I'd be worried.

On another note I think the 2.6GHz UK auction will be very interesting the first real breakdown of the LTE projects from major UK players.

EHS and "4G"

"Q. How can a young child or baby tell you if they have a headache when near wi-fi or a mobile mast?

A. They'd cry their ass off. Young children and babies don't just lie around if they ache.

Q. How can you stop your neighbour putting their wi-fi router on the wall next to where you sleep?

A. No idea. I haven't had this problem.

Q. How much does the signal increase if you live in a flat, surrounded by people with routers, computers, and Nintendo Wii's?

A. Rounding down, zero. Do you fall down and start twitching when anyone within a block runs a microwave oven? The leakage from them is FAR stronger than wifi signals. Do radios and TVs give you a fit? They have a local oscillator that spews out plenty of RF noise. How about cars? The spark plugs can produce quite a bit of RF noise (except diesels that don't have this).

Q. Why does a window seem to focus the signal into a room, making it worse inside the room than if you were outside?

A. It doesn't, it's all in your head. The window lets a signal in better than a wall but it doesn't amplify or focus signals.

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4G... well, initially 3G was supposed to be service that would get 128kbps or up. Then once that was met by CDMA-1X (144kbps) and was found to not be much better than the present "2G" services, 3G was redefined to mean considerably higher speeds. Despite this, GSM providers here love to claim EDGE is "2.5G" or even "2.75G" even though it's definitely not by present definition of 3G. It's essentially a marketing term more than anything.

To be honest, rather than having some crazy 100mbps service, I'd rather have a "3G"-style speed but with caps lifted. For instance, Verizon Wireless where I live still has only 1X (144kbps) but has EVDO (1-3mbps more or less) rolled out over most of their service area -- but with a 5GB cap. I'd love to have 1-3mbps wireless without a cap more than 100mbps with a cap.